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saubeidl 4 hours ago

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pasiaj 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You seem to mistake an ideal for reality and forgo a few difficult eventualities: eg. tyranny of the majority, corruption, regulatory capture, etc.

ptero 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Depends on the specific incarnation of the democracy. Not infrequently in elections the majority sees the choice as the one of the lesser evil.

d_k_f 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The state might be comprised of people, but unless everybody is directly involved in the final decision process you'll always have (at least) a principal-agent problem between the people acting as political representatives and everybody else.

saubeidl 3 hours ago | parent [-]

As you do in most things in life.

Do you grow your own food? Do you refine your own oil? Do you write your own contracts?

I would assume you pick somebody to do those things for you because one human can't do literally everything.

pessimizer 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Democracy" is just a word. It means rule bu the mob, and adds no other details. Describe what you mean by it.

echelon_musk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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